Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo unveiled his new mural art at the Sendai Airport on Thursday, four years after the area was hit by the tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

Akira Creator Pays Surprise Series’ Special L.A. Art Exhibit Katsuhiro Otomo was an extremely busy man during his visit to Los Angeles for the annual anime […] By Evan Valentine ...

Born in April 1954, the artist grew up in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture and fell for all things art. After publishing a few manga, Otomo spent eight years completing Akira, and the manga has gone on ...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Akira manga as penned by Katsuhiro Otomo. To commemorate that, we have an upcoming release of classic Otomo posters and they are gorgeous.

Katsuhiro Otomo, the man behind the genre-defining Akira anime and manga, is putting on a 3,000-piece art exhibit at 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo. Skip to main content. The homepage ...

Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo, ... as the director of the 1988 manga classic “Akira,” Otomo, ... the U.S.,” said that “Otomo completely transformed my awareness of animation as an art form.

Japanese director Katsuhiro Otomo began his career as a manga artist, writing and drawing series like Fireball and Domu in the late '70s and early '80s before moving on to the staggeringly ...

ANGOULÊME, France - Japan's Katsuhiro Otomo on Thursday became the first manga cartoonist to win a lifetime achievement award at France's renowned international Angouleme comics festival. The ...